Alberta election midway point checkup： Where’s the mainstream media？ (Guest： Keean Bexte)
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Two weeks down, two weeks left in the Alberta election campaign, and we ve finally reached the midpoint of the campaign. Joining me tonight to talk about the last two weeks of the election campaign and our predictions for the next two weeks is my Calgary-based Rebel colleague, Kian Bextie. We re looking back at the past two weeks and some of the more recent abuse Kian has received from NDP supporters in Edmonton.
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Hello Rebels, you're listening to a free audio-only recording of my show, The Gun Show.
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My guest tonight is my Calgary-based Rebel colleague, Kian Bextie.
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We're looking back at the last two weeks of the Alberta election campaign.
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And we are also talking about some of the more recent abuse Kian has suffered at the hands of NDP supporters in Edmonton.
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Thankfully, we've finally reached the midpoint in the Alberta election campaign.
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I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed, and you're watching The Gunn Show.
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You know, after the first week of the election campaign, I thought this thing couldn't really get all that much crazier.
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The NDP have been rehashing things Jason Kenney has done 30 years ago as proof of his apparent homophobia,
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despite his more recent track record of helping persecuted sexual minorities in the Islamic world.
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The NDP have tried to take credit for pipelines they haven't gotten built,
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jobs that haven't been created, and fiscal restraint they very clearly have never shown.
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The NDP really has spent the last two weeks trying their best to paint the United Conservative Party
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and the United Conservative Party voters as extremist, racist, and homophobic.
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Basically, the NDP have continued their slander on regular Albertans,
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and then just built a campaign for re-election around it.
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I think Albertans who mistakenly voted for the NDP last time have learned their lesson about being fear-mongered into voting for the NDP.
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And noticeably absent in this election campaign is a mainstream media that is doing its job.
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They aren't chasing down the NDP candidates to ask them tough questions about their own past or their own behavior.
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And they're not even holding Rachel Notley to account for her decision that she made within her caucus
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to protect the names of those accused of sexual impropriety.
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But my guest tonight is doing, well, all that and more.
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Joining me tonight to talk about the last two weeks of the election campaign
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and our predictions for the two weeks coming up
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is my rebel colleague from Calgary, Kian Bexty,
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in an interview we recorded yesterday afternoon.
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So we're two weeks down in the Alberta election campaign.
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I mean, two weeks left to go before our official liberation from our socialist overlords, the NDP.
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And I don't think anybody knows the file on the NDP quite as well as I do,
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Tonight, joining me from Calgary is my colleague, Kian Bexty,
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who has been making a lot of NDPers uncomfortable out there on the campaign trail.
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You and I are both going around the province delivering our gorgeous orange
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and getting those into the hands of the people who need them.
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But for me, I really enjoy being out there giving them to the people
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because you and I, I mean, we both spend most of our day in the pressure cooker of the Internet
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where all of the fake leftist outrage mobs exist.
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And it's been really good to talk to normal people who are just really cheering for us every day
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I mean, I'm from Calgary, so there's the natural dislike for our neighbor city.
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But, I mean, when I went there and was actually harassed for hours on end by five individuals
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and then followed for blocks upon blocks upon blocks
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while I tried to get back to my car by 16 socialist communist losers
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who were trying to sort of herd me away from Minister David Egan
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while I was trying to ask him questions that he really didn't want to answer.
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After that toxic encounter, I was pleased to go to rural Alberta
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where, you know, the folks are gentle, they're kind, they care about respectful dialogue,
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and, you know, they're just good, wholesome people,
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contrasted with the people that were at that GSA rally in Edmonton
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Keep in mind, it wasn't just, you know, some political rally.
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It was a rally that was supposed to be positive and about children.
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And these socialists made sure to make it as uncomfortable as possible.
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But, I mean, I got a pretty good video out of it, so I can't complain.
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I, like you, I suppose I live closer to Edmonton than you do,
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but I still think it is a progressive hellscape that I avoid setting foot in as much as I can.
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but I just think their municipal government is crazy and it is the seat of the NDP.
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But let's talk about that Gay-Straight Alliance protest that took place at the Edmonton legislature.
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It was, I mean, I don't understand why, let me, let me ask you a question before we get into this,
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because I was talking about this actually last night with some Calgary Proud Boys.
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I don't even know how you feel about Gay-Straight Alliances.
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Like, I think we talk about work all the time and we talk about policy issues and things that are breaking in the news.
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I know that as far as Gay-Straight Alliances go, I disagree with the NDP's forced secrecy,
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that if teachers think that parents should know that their child is in a Gay-Straight Alliance,
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for example, if that child has said that they're, you know, having suicidal thoughts,
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right now as the law sits, those teachers can't tell the parents.
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I don't believe that anybody should be fostering secrets with anybody else's kids.
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But I've actually never asked you what your opinion is on Gay-Straight Alliances.
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And it occurred to me that if I don't know, the people who were attacking you
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simply for trying to cover that Gay-Straight Alliance rally, they mustn't know either.
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So they were just jumping to conclusions about you and they really don't have any idea what you think.
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All right. So, yeah, I guess let's just dive into it.
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I mean, I graduated high school without a Gay-Straight Alliance and I came out fine.
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You know, I wasn't suicidal. I wasn't lynched by anyone.
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But I understand that some folks might think that GSAs are important and they have every right to create them if they deem fit.
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I think that the issue isn't about Gay-Straight Alliances.
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I think that the issue is that the NDP want to make sure that children's parents are kept as far away from parenting roles as possible.
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And to scrape away all of the rhetoric from the NDP here, what Jason Kenney wants to do is he wants to reverse some parts of the law
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to bring it in line with nine out of ten Canadian provinces so that in the event a grade two boy is beaten by his friends because he's gay,
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the parent doesn't have to hand the kid over to the parents at 3.30 in the afternoon and say,
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I can't tell you why this happened, but here's the kid. He has a black eye. Sorry about that.
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You know, this Jason Kenney wants to protect children here.
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And I'm not a fan of Jason Kenney by any means.
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I think he's a very flawed individual and I think he's a flawed politician.
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But in this instance, he wants to give teachers, some of the teachers, people in our society that we trust probably the most with our children,
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he wants to give them the authority to reach out to parents in the event that they deem the parents need to be involved.
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If the teacher knows that the child's parents has a history of abuse, which teachers know these kind of things,
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don't misunderstand that, especially elementary school children.
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Elementary school teachers, they're very involved in the lives of their children and know the parents,
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especially in small communities in rural Alberta, which I'm sure these NDP socialists are thinking that it's the rural teachers
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and the rural schools that, you know, lynch gay kids and it's such an evil place for them.
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But in small towns, teachers are very involved in the lives of children and they know if they shouldn't tell parents
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But in the event that the child is getting beaten or abused or bullied, you know, or is suicidal in their older years
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or even their younger years, the teachers should be the ones making that decision.
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And that's what Jason Kenney wants to give them the power to do.
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I mean, it's for me, I just don't think that anything in my child's life should be kept for me.
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I'm old enough to remember if you didn't know what what clubs your children was involved in at school,
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you would be considered a bad and out of touch parent.
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And I do believe that, you know, if our children are with teachers seven hours a day and they see that a child is struggling,
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Because the more support a child has around them, the better off the child is.
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But the government is cutting parents out of the conversation.
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Now, you went to the Gay Straight Alliance rally for the childless weirdos who were down there rallying,
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apparently in support of children who may or may not be gay or are part of these Gay Straight Alliances.
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Thank God you rolled your camera the whole time.
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Yeah, I had about three and a half hours of footage, sometimes overlapping footage,
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because I had a camera on my phone going so that I had some eyes in the back of my head
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when this face tattooed weirdo was trying to knock my phone out of my hands.
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And there was also someone who was very close with David Egan, the Minister of Education.
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I don't know if she was a staff member or what.
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She came in with David Egan and she left with him.
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And she tried to flip my shoulder mounted camera off of my back.
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And I would think that someone coming to a protest and leaving with a minister from that protest would be a staff member.
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I have to do some digging to figure out if she is.
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But it's pretty disgusting what these people did to make sure that there was no coverage.
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Because, to be honest, the only coverage was a global news helicopter circling overhead.
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I was the only media personnel that I saw there.
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So, I mean, why wouldn't they want the coverage?
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When you're there, you really are able to take in just the sights and sounds and smells of how weird everybody is.
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Some of those people I would advise my children not even to talk to.
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And yet they're out there rallying on behalf of children.
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Not only did they bully you, but trying to break your camera equipment, that's assault.
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And yet they claim to be anti-violence and anti-bullying.
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If what happened to, let's say, a global news journalist or, God forbid, a CBC journalist,
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if what happened to you happened to them, it would be a provincial crisis.
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The premier would weigh in about how dangerous it is for journalists out there.
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But there has been no utterance of anybody condemning the sort of harassment and bullying that you were subjected to that day.
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Yeah, I mean, Jason Kenney certainly didn't stand up for us.
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Maybe Jason Kenney is starting to see the light.
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One of his candidates posts next to one of your beautiful orange signs.
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So maybe the tides are turning for the rebel in terms of mainstream politicians actually seeing what we do
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and standing up for our right to practice journalism.
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Casey Madu, I'm sorry if I'm saying his last name wrong, but he's a candidate here in Edmonton.
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He's running against John Archer for the NDP, who currently works in Notley's government.
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Um, he's basically been accused of white supremacy, um, for posing beside that photo.
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He's a racist against, I don't know, black people.
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I just saw his campaign volunteers and it's pretty multicultural, but yet the NDP are so wild and so crazy in their proxies and press progress
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that they actually think they can gaslight the public into thinking that Casey Madu is a black white supremacist.
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Yeah, I, it's kind of insane to think that these progressives here in Canada think that a Nigerian Canadian,
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because he's from Nigeria, is a white supremacist.
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And I mean, press progress, we know how desperate they are.
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So they reach as much as they can, wherever they can to connect the dots.
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Like there's some super sleuth, you know, taking pictures of my glasses and trying to like connect, connect the dots.
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You know, they, they're, they try everything that they can.
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The fact that press progress is finally, we're starting to finally shine a light on them as the media wing for the NDP.
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I mean, it was clear before Brian Topp, the, uh, I, Nolly brought him in to run the government.
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Basically he's an executive director or, or, or some sort of board member director with the Broadband Institute,
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But wait, and he's back working for the campaign now.
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They, I mean, it can't be, it can't be more transparent than this.
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Even the NDP, uh, attack ad that just came out.
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It's one of these like new YouTube style ads that, you know, it's kind of like Buzzfeed styled almost.
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Uh, they have screenshots taken directly without attribution from press progress with their grainy style photo.
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It's a very, it's a very unique, uh, wash that they put over their photos.
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So it makes everyone in their photos look a little bit more, you know, creepy.
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And it was directly taken from the top of two different articles, just put on their attack ad without any attribution whatsoever.
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They actually even disabled the comments on their attack ad because they knew that Albertans would just, uh, give them a pretty bad, pretty hard time about it.
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You should, uh, you should check out the video if you haven't seen it, the new attack ad.
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You sent me that link and I was looking at it before, um, you jumped online with me.
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It's like if the federal conservatives took everything they, um, used in their attack ads from the True North report and didn't attribute it.
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I mean, it's so, it's so transparent and so shameless.
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But when they do stuff like that, it's so insulting to Albertans when they think that we can't see right through it.
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Um, yeah, it is, um, I mean, there's not much else to say other than press progress is largely irrelevant.
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I mean, it's a little bit unfortunate that the CBC just takes everything that they say at face value.
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But I mean, what else can you expect from the CBC?
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This is, this is how, how narratives are created, right?
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Like, a fake news website, it's just some dumpy blog, uh, publishes something that may or may not be true.
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Then a larger blog publishes the same thing, saying, oh, well, they said it.
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And then press progress picks it up and says, oh, look, this blog says it, so it must be true.
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And then CBC publishes what press progress says.
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Uh, it's called Trading Up the Chain of Fake News is what it's called.
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That's how they push out these stories, uh, trying to destroy the careers of individuals.
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Um, one thing I wanted to talk to you about was the fact that you broke the Darren Billis story a good month ago.
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Um, you did all the legwork, you got his divorce records.
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You didn't publish them all because, um, a lot of the stuff just wasn't in the public interest,
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but you did uncover, um, an affair that he had, uh, with another MLA.
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You also uncovered, um, accusations via his wife through a sworn affidavit about drug use
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Now, um, now your reporting has been vindicated, um, that other accusations about Darren Billis have
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And finally now, because of that, the mainstream media is tacitly asking questions to Notley about it.
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But I think it is remarkable and a little bit pathetic that your reporting had to go through
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the rinse cycle of the mainstream media before the UCP could touch it.
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Um, yeah, the UCP, oh my God, they, they, this story blew up back, I think it was February.
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And all of the people who view our videos, who are largely probably, um, UCP members and supporters
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And they are talking about this, trying to get Jason Kenney to, uh, you know, move forward
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on this issue that one of the highest ranking members of the NDP government, Darren Billis,
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someone who was part of the four NDP MLAs who were elected before the Orange Crush in
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Um, he, he, he's a longtime NDP staffer, uh, and, and MLA, and he has been charged with serious
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drug and alcohol addictions, something that, uh, federal ministers resigned over when it,
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Uh, he's been charged with, you know, kind of messing around outside of his marriage,
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which I mean, whatever, what have you, but that the problem was that, that philandering,
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uh, coincided with the NDP timeline, uh, the NDP sexual misconduct coverup timeline and
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There wasn't that much of a jump yet no one in the mainstream media decided to cover it.
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Even the CBC journalist who joined me on the United we roll convoy for the first day, uh,
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talked to me and said, yeah, well, you, you did send us hightailing it to the, uh, Edmonton
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courthouse to pick up the documents, but, and, and we read them all, but there wasn't enough
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So they left it, but they did spend the time to go to the courthouse to read all the documents.
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So, you know, that they verified my work and they just decided it wasn't worth it.
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Well, uh, I don't know if they decided it wasn't worth it or if the narrative wasn't correct.
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They, I mean, they tried to bury it as long as they could.
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And now it's come up again, you know, it's harder to hide the truth when it's coming up
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I mean, uh, Jason Kenney sort of did the same thing to me, um, when I broke the story using
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access to information documents about how the NDP knew that, uh, the carbon tax before
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They didn't think it would, they didn't think it would get social license.
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Back in 2015, internal, um, focus grouping said, no, no, one's going to buy that.
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Post-millennial, whom I consider fellow travelers in the conservative media atmosphere, uh, they
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Um, and it, I mean, it's just, I wish they would have more moral courage because it's
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pretty clear I'm about as mainstream conservative as you can get.
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So are you, um, why does our work have to go through some sort of sanitization process
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before someone has the guts to say, yeah, they did good work.
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And I know for a fact, personally, that Jason Kenney reads our work.
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I know that he watches our videos and I know that all of his staff watch our videos yet,
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you know, when it comes down to it, when it comes down to the, uh, sharing it and, or even
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commenting on huge stories of provincial interest, sometimes even national interest, they just
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So we better listen to the media arm of the NDP.
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I mean, isn't that funny that, uh, they're so intimidated by those bloggers overhead press
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progress, um, that they're worried about backlash from talking to me.
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I mean, hopefully that changes after the election, although it's not going to change the work I
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do if they never talk to me ever again, I'll still, um, I actually, I think my job after
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the election will be making sure that Jason Kenney keeps his promises and, um, Rachel Notley
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has never promised, uh, conservatives much of anything, but I think if Jason Kenney doesn't
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keep his promises, there will be a real sense of betrayal and, um, that can send us spiraling
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So I think it is in my best interest and Jason Kenney's best interest if I work to hold him
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I'm, I'm keenly interested as, and you know this about me, I'm keenly interested on how
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Jason Kenney progresses on the advanced education file.
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I want to know what he's going to do with student unions.
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I want to know if he's going to follow in the footsteps of Doug Ford, Premier Doug Ford
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in Ontario, who has made serious steps to getting, uh, student unions to the place where they're
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voluntary, where they're opt-in, where, uh, students' human rights are respected so that
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they have the decision whether or not to join a political advocacy union, uh, while they,
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Because as you know, getting a university degree in this province, uh, is part and parcel
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Uh, I mean, any post-secondary, it doesn't have to be a university degree, going to SAIT
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or NAIT or Red Deer College, uh, you know, that, that comes with being successful in life,
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having a salary that you are happy with, uh, and it's not a choice.
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So it, the, it is a, it is a necessity to go to university.
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Therefore, you cannot force someone to join a political union just because they're in an
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I, it's, it's disgusting, the state of student unions in this province and in this country.
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And Jason Kenney owes it to the members of his party who passed back last year or the
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year before, uh, that the party will support voluntary student unionism.
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I, it's not in his platform, which is a little bit disturbing to me that he's just completely
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Uh, but maybe he'll follow in Doug Ford's footsteps.
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I mean, it wasn't in Doug Ford's platform either, but it was, uh, abundantly clear that
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So we'll hope, hopefully Jason Kenney's going to follow through on that and, uh, on a whole
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host of other files in terms of scrapping the carbon tax.
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Uh, he says, uh, he says it's going to be bill one.
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We'll see, uh, and we'll see if it's a full scrap or, or just a partial scrap.
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Uh, we know conservatives in this, in this world these days, think about, um, Teresa May
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like to do, like, like to implement conservative ideas half, half acidly.
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We'll see if Jason Kenney follows in his globalist pals footsteps or, or in the more populous
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Uh, your, uh, wishlist is a little more specific than mine.
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I just want him to fire three in every two bureaucrats.
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Um, because I've seen it firsthand, the bad ideas that become legislation are, are born
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in the bureaucracy and then they're fed back up the chain, back up to the assistant deputy
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Um, most of the bad ideas are born in the public sector.
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And so I would like to see as many of them out of work as possible, at least 50,000 that,
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I'd like those people to just run off back to the booming future, booming public sector.
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I mean, she's brought in so many out of province workers.
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I hope that they are not unemployed if they stay in the province.
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I hope they find a fruitful employment in the private sector.
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But, you know, if they're one of these out of province shipped in people like Brian
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Topp, I am more than happy to see them enjoy unemployment or not so much enjoy unemployment
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in the same way that tens and hundreds of thousands of people, uh, of Albertans have had to suffer
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Um, now I think I've taken up a good portion of your afternoon, Kian.
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Um, I wanted, I wanted to ask you, um, predictions.
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Uh, what, what, uh, how many seats do you think the NDP are going to get?
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I had a prediction at the start of the, uh, writ.
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I wrote it down the moment the writ was dropped and I, I can't remember it exactly, but I think
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it was something along the lines of 64 seats go to the UCP, 15 to 16 seats go to the NDP
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and once he goes to the Alberta party, I think that Greg Clark might elbow out, uh, Schweitzer.
00:28:14.340
I would, uh, there's a, not a lot of UCPers I want to see lose.
00:28:19.880
I mean, he campaigned on calling us white supremacists and racist and intolerant and saying
00:28:24.640
that we sympathize with Nazis, even though our boss is a Jew who sent me to Israel twice.
00:28:29.080
Um, he, he sent out a letter, um, trying to basically run his leadership campaign by campaigning
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And I don't care what he calls me, but the day he calls our people who support us and cheer
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for us every day, uh, bad names, maligning them, assassinating their characters, then
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So if Greg Clark beats Doug Schweitzer, um, I'm supporting the Alberta party that day.
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And I, I, I support what I, what I want to see is, uh, oh, and to finish off my prediction,
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I think that, I think that the FPC might get zero.
00:29:07.480
I, I want Derek to beat Lila just because, and this gets to the back of the point that
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I'm, I was saying, I prefer it when there is a large group of political parties.
00:29:17.800
I want there to be that third party, like in New Brunswick, like in British Columbia, where
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the, where the Greens have some, some seats as well, where there's, can be more diversity
00:29:28.600
I don't, I don't want the UCP to just have a mandate for four years because frankly, I
00:29:36.600
He needs people to the right, holding him to the account, to account.
00:29:39.300
He needs people from the left, holding him to account.
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And I think that Derek Fildebrandt would be a great voice in the legislature to keep Jason
00:29:46.720
Um, so I, I, I want the Alberta party to win in that seat.
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Uh, and I, I would love it if an Alberta independence candidate won as well, because I mean, that's
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probably who I'm going to vote for at the end of the day.
00:30:01.840
I would like to see my friend Bernard the Roughneck shake it up in Grand Prairie.
00:30:07.620
Um, I'd love to see his beautiful hair in the legislature one day.
00:30:14.680
We don't have enough common men in politics and, uh, you know, Bernard's rough around the
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And I think, uh, that would be a welcome sight in the legislature.
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I think I accidentally called, uh, Greg Clark, Doug Clark.
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So if I did that, I don't know, but I apologize anyways, but I predict actually 24 NDP seats.
00:30:37.440
Um, because there are 20 seats in Edmonton and, uh, that's heavily weighted in the NDP
00:30:43.540
favor and the NDP are, they're hurrying hard on this, um, lake of fire baloney.
00:30:50.960
And I just wonder how many people are going to get spooked, um, by the UCP and not even
00:30:59.400
by the UCP, but just by the fear mongering from Rachel Notley.
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Um, I worry that there might be some, they might round up some like outlier seats, um,
00:31:12.000
And, uh, I, I wouldn't be surprised to see them go as high as 24.
00:31:16.860
I think the question is how far from the center of Edmonton will the NDP be able to reach?
00:31:23.240
And Calgary Varsity, Calgary Varsity is going to be an interesting one.
00:31:25.700
Um, Anne McGrath, the Cold War communist, as I'm now calling her, because she actually
00:31:31.380
ran for the Communist Party of Canada during the Cold War, which should have been treason
00:31:38.280
Uh, she ran for the communists and is now running for the NDP and has been running the
00:31:43.200
Notley government from Calgary for the past couple of years.
00:31:46.920
Uh, she deserves to lose and she deserves to lose hard, but this election was called during
00:31:53.580
the, uh, uh, while the University of Calgary is in session and while the University of
00:31:58.940
So there's, there's heavily, and we both know, and I might do a story on this, there's specific
00:32:05.660
voting centers made for students in advanced polls so that they can get as many votes in
00:32:11.160
as possible as easily as possible, which I mean, should be good for democracy, generally
00:32:16.200
speaking, but that kind of effort doesn't, doesn't extend to the oil patch.
00:32:20.500
Uh, you know, it, it, it's only the students that get very specific, long hours to go and
00:32:29.380
All they have to do is walk downstairs in their dorm and they can vote for a communist
00:32:35.960
And I'm going to do a story on it probably, uh, if, if I can get enough information on it,
00:32:40.300
but as you know, as well, elections Alberta thinks that they're not foipable.
00:32:47.240
Yeah, they do think that for some unknown reason.
00:32:50.000
Um, yeah, I didn't, uh, I didn't realize, well, not that I didn't realize, but I didn't
00:32:54.440
put together that the election is perfectly timed for when the university students are
00:32:58.240
still actually in university, but the oil patch is just coming into breakup and farmers
00:33:09.000
Yeah, cultivating and seeding is going to be happening here pretty soon.
00:33:12.760
Uh, and I guess what is the election is, well, at the time of filming this, it is 14 days
00:33:25.740
I know you're just as busy as I am with this election.
00:33:28.340
Um, it's a big job covering the other side of the story.
00:33:31.860
Um, it's a dangerous job sometimes covering the other side of the story.
00:33:34.900
Um, so thanks and I will catch up with you later.
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There are just two weeks left in this Alberta election campaign and I guarantee you it is
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going to get weirder and sleazier and dirtier and the mainstream media is going to continue
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to abdicate their responsibility to you to tell you both sides of the story.
00:34:09.740
And that is why Kian and I are going to be working right down until the final vote is
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cast here in Alberta to tell you the other side of the story.
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Right now, we're crisscrossing the province, getting out those beautiful orange stopnotley.com
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And we're out there talking to real people, actual voters in places Notley doesn't like
00:34:35.060
Now, if you want a chronology of the failures of Rachel Notley over the last four years that
00:34:39.320
the mainstream media just refuses to talk about now, be sure to pick up my new book,
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I checked yesterday and it was the number one political book in the country on amazon.ca.
00:34:53.460
And every day that it stays on the bestseller list is another day that the NDP hearts are
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Now, thank you to everybody at home who has already supported what we do here by getting
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one of those stopnotley.com signs and buying the book.
00:35:09.780
We couldn't do what we do here without the generous help and support from all of you at
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I'll see everybody back here in the same time, in the very same place next week.
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And by then, we'll have just one week left in the election campaign.
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And remember, don't let the government tell you that you've had too much to think.